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  1. Re:Impossible? on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    How long ago was that? And how work intensive was your degree? There are a lot of degrees that require a huge amount of work, meaning that it's much harder to find time for a job. And if you're going to try and get more out of college, by joining an extra-curricular academic organization, then forget it.

  2. Re:Not possible any more on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    This is a student. There aren't many jobs out there that would give you the flexibility you need as a student that pay much more than minimum wage.

  3. Re:I'd worry if I hired him. on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    If you have to worry about shit like that, then your company is likely working on boring ass shit that no one wants to do anyway.

  4. Re:I'd hire him on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 2

    Good for you and your pointless anecdotes. I'd like to see actual data on who has it easier, though. And how many people who don't have degrees find it "easy" to get top offers.

  5. Re:Source... on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 1

    So what's the difference with this situation? Why would he be opposed to VLC on iOS, but be fine with VLC on the Windows 8 store?

  6. Re:Copyfree HTML5 Video Bloated Copyleft Crap on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 1

    You have fun with that. In the mean time, I'd like a player that can actually play the videos I have.

  7. Re:Win 8 on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 1

    Didn't the iOS version get taken down due to conflicts with the licensing of VLC and the iOS App Store? Wouldn't the exact same thing happen here?

  8. Re:Time for some grass roots activism on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 1

    Those assholes had plenty of time to try and do the same thing. I have no sympathy for them that someone got a better deal.

  9. Re:Bitcoin is designed to resist this on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 1

    Part of why people don't want to spend BTC is because it is a deflationary currency. Why would you buy something today when the same amount of money would buy you more tomorrow?

  10. Re:and here i was on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 1

    Gold and silver are completely dependent on people wanting them due to the "OOOO, Shiny!" factor. If people don't want them for that, they do have some industrial uses, but nowhere near the value that they are now.

  11. Re:Nerd gold on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 2

    It does kinda make me want to invent my own internet currency, so I can get huge amounts of money.

  12. Re:Bitcoins are junk... on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 1

    And yet, they are very susceptible to speculation-driven hyper inflation.

  13. Re:Bitcoins are junk... on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 1

    Precious metals may have been simply magically valuable in the olden days, but their modern prices are based upon their uses in industry.

    There is no fucking way you can say, with a straight face, that the market price of gold is due solely to it's limited use as a semiconductor.

  14. Re:Bitcoins are junk... on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 1

    I'll keep converting my carnival tickets into precious metals

    What value do your "precious metals" have other than what the mindshare attaches to them?

  15. Farming requires specialized skills, land, and labor. BitCoin mining requires none of this.

  16. No, that's not the logic at all. Basically, the people behind the chips believe that selling the chips to miners is more profitable than the BitCoins they'd be able to mine with them would be.

  17. Re:Yes but on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 1

    Please find me the Mexican food stand where I can give them BitCoins and they will give me delicious peppers.

    As for the Mini, I'm 97% sure that BMW Financial Services would like me to pay off my car loan in US Dollars. Maybe I could talk them into allowing me to pay with Euros, but I haven't asked.

  18. Re:The actual reason on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    Considering the price, I don't even pay attention to it because I can build a decent desktop system and have enough left over to buy a Galaxy III

    Yeah, but that comparison is completely irrelevant, as we're talking about a portable computing device, and you're talking about something that is stuck on a desk.

  19. Re:The actual reason on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you talking about? I've been looking at a new Apple laptop which has a DVD drive, and which changing that out for an SSD drive would be just as simple as in my 2 year old laptop.

  20. Re:I haven't read a bad review of it on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    And you act like, just because a bunch of people like something, then it can't be a superior product, and must be succeeding solely because of it's marketing.

  21. Re:failure round 2 incoming on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    No, but you will have to retool the application to use a finger based input rather than a keyboard and mouse.

  22. Re:Why a smart phone manufacturer? on Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds · · Score: 1

    I would highly doubt that market is anywhere near as profitable as the smartphone market was.

  23. Re:One sided on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Does a newborn really need to be vaccinated against STD's? Why not wait until the child is more robust?

    You mean, wait until after they've started having sex?

    Unless you have some evidence showing that it is a bad idea, pipe down.

  24. Re:Really, Really, I call BS on your science... on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 0

    Actually no, I just call BS on your implementation of science.

    Too fucking bad. You are NOT entitled to your own facts. And there is not a shred of credible evidence in your corner.

    And if you think that's a scienfically smart practice. You need to pull your head out of the textbook which is stuck in your arse.

    No, you need to provide evidence that it is not. And one annecdote does not evidence make.

  25. Re:Freedom of choice on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 2

    - Are you a nurse or a doctor? Some hospitals require you to take a shot.

    You made the choice to go into that line of work. Don't like it? Find another job. Isn't that what all of you "freedom" people shout whenever a labor dispute happens?

    - Are you in the military? Good luck denying taking shots.

    Same thing. YOU chose that job. Don't like it? Find another job.

    - Are you student in a public school? Staff claims that it's "the law" to take shots. Some schools do not even ask permissions, they just give shots.

    You are using public resources, those come with restrictions. You do NOT have the right to endanger anyone else just because you think it's some kind of right.

    These are just simple examples how vaccines are pushed, in many times against persons will.

    In not one of those cases was it against someone's will. In every single case, the person made a choice to go into a field or use a service knowing full well that it would have that condition. They were completely free to choose something else without that condition.

    And one last thing: in many cases medical companies lobby and outright finance drug approval agencies, just like with any big business. Medical business is no different from military, finance or oil. If you don't trust these industries why the hell would you trust medical?

    You're going to have to prove that this is true, and that it is relevant in any way.